MRI Research Day 2026
We are delighted to announce the MRI Research Day 2026, which will take place on June 10, 2026, at the Albert Renold Auditorium, CMU, University of Geneva.
This one-day event brings together MRI experts from across the Lemanic region and provides a platform to review ongoing MRI projects, share experiences and challenges, and foster collaboration among physicists, physicians, and neuroscientists.
See highlights from the 2025 edition here.
Save the date and stay tuned for the upcoming programme!
PROGRAMME
8h30 Registration and Poster Setup
9h00 Session 1 | Chaired by Patrik Vuilleumier (UNIGE)
- Learning to control the visual cortex and regulating visual attention via fMRI-based neurofeedback
Riccardo Galli (PI: Patrik Vuilleumier, UNIGE) - Multiple types of prediction in human Pavlovian learning
Lavinia Wuensch (PI: Eva Pool / David Sander, UNIGE) - The brain integration of prosodic and semantic cues in non-literal forms of speech understanding
Adrien Wittmann (PI: Didier Grandjean, UNIGE) - In the object’s shoes: a novel ventro-temporal area for object-centered perception
Prosper Fiave (PI: Ilaria Sani, UNIGE)
10h20 Coffee Break
10h40 Session 2 | Chaired by Valentina Borghesani (UNIGE)
- A grid-like code of tactile perception
Mariana Babo Rebelo (PI: Olaf Blanke, EPFL) - Modulating the sense of agency in functional neurological disorder using real-time fMRI neurofeedback
Eliane Mueller (PI: Selma Aybek, UFribourg) - Dynamic neural transformation between egocentric and allocentric representations in VR spatial navigation
Jie Song (PI: Patrik Vuilleumier / Ilaria Sani, UNIGE) - Enhancing NIBS-induced corticospinal excitability and mapping spinal cord fMRI activation
Rebecca Jones/Ekansh Sareen (PI: Dimitri Van De Ville, EPFL UNIGE/Friedhelm Hummel, EPFL)
12h00 Lunch + Posters
14h00 Session 3 | Chaired by Dimitrios Karampinos (EPFL)
- Functional-Metabolic connectivity with functional magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (fMRSI)
André Döring (PI: Lijing Xin, EPFL) - Ultra-high field (7T) imaging in cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Felix Kurz (PI: Felix Kurz, HUG) - Free-breath 2D CINE MRI for cardiac function assessment
Anam Fatima (PI: Jean-Paul Vallée, HUG, UNIGE) - 7T MRI Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM)-Aided MRgHIFU Functional Neurosurgery
Rares Salomir (PI: Rares Salomir, HUG, UNIGE)
15h20 Tea Break
15h40 Session 4 | Chaired by Karl-Olof Lovblad (HUG)
- Investigating the response of dural venous sinus stenosis to subtractive lumbar puncture: preliminary experience
Andrea Rosi (PI: Andrea Rosi, HUG) - Resilience in brain networks after stroke
Elisabeth Dirren (PI: Emmanuel Carrera, HUG) - A Longitudinal and Reproducible Anti-coactivation Pattern Between the Cerebellum and the Ventral Tegmental Area Relates to Apathy in Schizophrenia
Jade Awada (PI: Indrit Bègue, UNIGE) - Imaging Vascular and Glymphatic Function in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: Contribution to Emergence of Psychosis
Alessandro Pascucci (PI: Stephan Eliez, UNIGE)